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2019-12-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

Nine of the 20 richest counties in the US are in the Washington DC suburbs as the capital outstrips Silicon Valley in earning power

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Posted by Skidmark 2019-12-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Center of the principal industry?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-19 01:50|| 2019-12-19 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Anyone who thinks 'big government' is not a problem really isn't paying attention.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-19 04:50|| 2019-12-19 04:50|| Front Page Top

#3 You know if you disperse most of that government activity, it would drop property prices and the rationales for outrageous civil service and lobbyist pay. Additionally it would force special interests groups to also disperse across the country to multiple locations driving up their operational costs. Decentralization, just another of those checks and balances for the national government.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-19 07:46|| 2019-12-19 07:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Extend the right of servicemembers granted in the early 40s not to pay local and state income taxes to federal employees who because of federal reorganization or reassignment move to new locations, but with a 8 or 10 year homestead clause (stay too long, you become a local). No grandfathering.

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-19 08:59|| 2019-12-19 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Government pay should be in line with tax pauer income. Not more or they become an oppressive govrrning class all of its own.

Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-12-19 23:13|| 2019-12-19 23:13|| Front Page Top

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